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name: "Hasan Minhaj"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hasan-minhaj"
fi1m_id: "hasan-minhaj"
imdb_id: "nm3653778"
tmdb_id: 552252
wikidata_id: "Q18348652"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 September 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 57
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-01T04:03:32.699749+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hasan Minhaj

## Identity

Hasan Minhaj

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hasan-minhaj
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hasan-minhaj
- **IMDb ID:** nm3653778
- **TMDB ID:** 552252
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18348652
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18348652, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3653778/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552252

Actor. Born 23 September 1985 in Davis, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 September 1985, Davis, California, USA
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Also known as:** 하산 미나즈
- **Frequently works with:** [Alex Saks](https://film.one/person/alex-saks.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 57, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 54 to 54 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Romance 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $694m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18348652, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3653778/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552252

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*No Hard Feelings*](https://film.one/film/no-hard-feelings.md) (61), [*It Ends with Us*](https://film.one/film/it-ends-with-us.md) (54), [*TRON: Ares*](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) (50)
- **Netflix:** [*Best of the Best*](https://film.one/film/best-of-the-best.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Hasan Minhaj

> A stand-up who made his name talking straight at the camera, Hasan Minhaj has so far been used by films as the amiable husband or friend at the edge of the frame. He is better company when he has written the lines himself, as *Best of the Best* shows.

In *It Ends with Us* (2024) he plays Marshall, husband to Jenny Slate's Allysa, and Slate gets the laughs. Minhaj stands beside her, is given little and does it amiably, and that is the shape of his film work so far: the friend, the husband, the pleasant man at the side of the picture. In *No Hard Feelings* (2023) and *TRON: Ares* (2025) he passes through without our reviews pausing on him, which for a supporting player is not a crime, but is not a recommendation either.

The reputation was made elsewhere. He began doing stand-up around 2008, was a correspondent on *The Daily Show* from 2014 to 2018, and became known for *Homecoming King* (2017), a special about growing up Indian-American, and then for *Patriot Act* (2018–2020), which mixed stand-up with the week's news. The method there was his own: screens behind him, a Steadicam following him about the stage, and a habit of addressing the audience directly, as though he had cornered you at a party and was not going to let you go. Film acting followed from 2017 and thickened between 2023 and 2025 into a run of supporting parts, *Babes* (2024) among them.

The difference between the two careers is who wrote the words. He has described his stand-up as "seventy per cent emotional truth—this happened—and then thirty per cent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction", and he has been accused of leaning harder on the thirty than that suggests. Whatever one makes of that, the stories are his and he tells them his way, and in other people's films he has neither the story nor the way. We spent *It Ends with Us* waiting for the script to hand him a scene, and it never did, and we minded more than the size of the part warranted, because the man who fronted *Patriot Act* plainly had more to say than Marshall.

*Best of the Best* (2026) is the first time a film has let him write. He and Prashanth Venkataramanujam, his writing partner across two films, built a college comedy around a Bollywood dance team and the two young women who run it, and the script is quick, funny and likeable, though it cuts its dances into confetti and forgives its young men far more readily than its young women. Minhaj gives himself a supporting turn and plays it with the ease of a man who wrote his own lines. It is the best film he has been in and the one in which he looks most at home, and the two facts are related.

On this evidence the thing to watch for is not the next part he is offered but the next script he and Venkataramanujam finish. Until then, in other people's films, he is good company and not much more, and directors who hire him for the husband should not be surprised when that is what they get.

## Biography

Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian and actor. He was born on 23 September 1985 in Davis, California, and graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a degree in political science.

Minhaj first gained prominence as a correspondent on The Daily Show and as the host of the Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. His stand-up specials include Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017).

His film roles include Doug Khan in No Hard Feelings (2023), Marshall in It Ends with Us (2024) and Ajay Singh in TRON: Ares (2025). He has also appeared in The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), Rough Night (2017) and The Morning Show.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Best of the Best* (2026), Fi1m 70, Actor, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/best-of-the-best.md)
- *TRON: Ares* (2025), Fi1m 50, as Ajay Singh — [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md)
- *It Ends with Us* (2024), Fi1m 54, as Marshall — [page](https://film.one/film/it-ends-with-us.md)
- *Haunted Mansion* (2023), Fi1m 51, as Sketch Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/haunted-mansion.md)
- *No Hard Feelings* (2023), Fi1m 61, as Doug Khan — [page](https://film.one/film/no-hard-feelings.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Best of the Best* (2026), Writer, Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/best-of-the-best.md)
- *Lucy Schulman* (2026), Actor
- *TRON: Ares* (2025), as Ajay Singh — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md)
- *Hasan Minhaj: Off with His Head* (2024), Writer, Executive Producer
- *It Ends with Us* (2024), as Marshall — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/it-ends-with-us.md)
- *Babes* (2024), as Marty
- *Haunted Mansion* (2023), as Sketch Artist — Fi1m 51, [page](https://film.one/film/haunted-mansion.md)
- *No Hard Feelings* (2023), as Doug Khan — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/no-hard-feelings.md)
- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Thanks — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Mustache* (2023), as Hasan · Executive Producer
- *Hasan Minhaj: The King's Jester* (2022), Writer, Producer
- *The Morning Show* (2019), series, as Eric Nomani
- *Goatface: A Comedy Special* (2018), Actor
- *The Spy Who Dumped Me* (2018), as Duffer
- *Most Likely to Murder* (2018), as Amir
- *Champions* (2018), series, as Uncle Ro
- *Rough Night* (2017), as Joe
- *Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King* (2017), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Getting On* (2013), series, as Raul
- *Watsky's Making An Album* (2012), series, as Kurt
- *Moving Takahashi* (2011), as Grant
- *State of Georgia* (2011), series, as Seth
- *Arrested Development* (2003), series, as Indian Medical Student — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)

## Gallery

- ![Comedian Hasan Minhaj performs during the comedy show in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the USO and the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces at Joint Base  (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-ac565f748df1.jpg) Comedian Hasan Minhaj performs during the comedy show in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the USO and the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces at Joint Base  (2016) — DoD News photo by EJ Hersom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/160505-D-DB155-010_Comedian_Hasan_Minhaj_performs_during_the_comedy_show_at_Joint_Base_Andrews_in_May_2016.JPG/1280px-160505-D-DB155-010_Comedian_Hasan_Minhaj_performs_during_the_comedy_show_at_Joint_Base_Andrews_in_May_2016.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Comedian Hasan Minhaj performs during the comedy show in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the USO and the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces at Joint Base  (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-99e59edcdca8.jpg) Comedian Hasan Minhaj performs during the comedy show in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the USO and the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces at Joint Base  (2016) — DoD News photo by EJ Hersom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/160505-D-DB155-010_Comedian_Hasan_Minhaj_performs_during_the_comedy_show_at_Joint_Base_Andrews_in_May_2016_%28cropped%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The Goatface Experience www.goatfacecomedy.com Photography by Mandee Johnson www.mandeejohnson.com Presented by CleftClips www.cleftclips.com August 14, 2013 Th](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-b7f4aac2bf6e.jpg) The Goatface Experience www.goatfacecomedy.com Photography by Mandee Johnson www.mandeejohnson.com Presented by CleftClips www.cleftclips.com August 14, 2013 Th — CleftClips from Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Hasan_Minhaj_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hasan Minhaj](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-c6ecc4c9f5ac.jpg) Hasan Minhaj — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Hasan_Minhaj_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Hasan_Minhaj_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hasan Minhaj](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-32918d22a4e8.jpg) Hasan Minhaj — Image via TMDB
- ![Hasan Minhaj](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-0b320f9ffcc2.jpg) Hasan Minhaj — Image via TMDB
- ![Hasan Minhaj](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-66b23111e237.jpg) Hasan Minhaj — Image via TMDB
- ![Hasan Minhaj on The Blocks Podcast (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-705f00acfa1a.png) Hasan Minhaj on The Blocks Podcast (2023) — Neal Brennan, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Hasan_Minhaj_on_Neal_Brennan_uploaded_James_Tamim.png/1280px-Hasan_Minhaj_on_Neal_Brennan_uploaded_James_Tamim.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hasan Minhaj](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-989d36b39745.jpg) Hasan Minhaj — Image via TMDB
- ![Hasan Minhaj](https://film.one/media/person/7904/gallery-a7bcf04116d5.jpg) Hasan Minhaj — Image via TMDB

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